Missing Recorded Tv in Kodi

Hi, There are 8 tv recordings stored on my TVheadend server from 2 series on 2 different channels, yesterday all 8 recordings appeared in koditoday only 4 of them are appearing. I have checked all the display filters in kodi and there nothing wrong there.Can anybody give me any idea why these recordings would vanish all of a sudden from kodi but still be viewable from my server?

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Does the user logging in to Kodi have permission to access the DVR files? If any recordings were created with a profile the Kodi user doesn't have access to they will be hidden.

Are any of the files listed in the 'Failed Recordings' tab? Recordings regularly disappear on my system due to what I think is a bug where TVHeadend loses contact with where the files are stored momentarily and automatically sets all recordings to 'Failed' with a reason of 'File missing'.

Does a restart of TVHeadend followed by a restart of Kodi resolve the issue (the order you do this is important)?

Hi Jonathan,Thanks for your reply.I have double checked your suggestions on my system including rebooting the server and kodi but the files remain missing.Please check my screenshots to further explain what I mean.

This will list the filenames for any log files with 'Coronation Street' in the title and show the file path (which reveals the date/time stamp)

Next use cat to show the full config of the file - pick one or two that are in the Kodi UI and one or two that aren't;

cat ConfigFileNameFromAbove | pastebinit

This will "paste" the content of the file to Ubuntu's Pastebin site - if you'd rather not do that just cat out the file and post the results below (I don't think the logs contain anything privileged though).

Share the URL's of the pastes (or the log files copied into this thread) highlighting which show in Kodi and which don't.

You might need to install pastebinit (which is an uber-useful tool for sharing logs with forums like this) by using

sudo apt-get install pastebinit

I've made a massive assumption that you are using a Debian-derivative to host TVHeadend so if not adjust the instructions above to suit.

Thanks Jonathan for your effort, unfortunately though as you guessed the recorded tv files are still missing, seems very strange that the files are no longer visible to kodi when the once were visible, not very wife friendly I will open an issue, to see if anything can be done.Thanks again for the tip

Thanks Jonathan for your effort, unfortunately though as you guessed the recorded tv files are still missing, seems very strange that the files are no longer visible to kodi when the once were visible, not very wife friendly I will open an issue, to see if anything can be done.Thanks again for the tip

Hi did you solved this problem , i have the same problem now ( new recorded programs do not show up in kodi ) ?

Hey guys, for those of you running bleeding edge Tvheadend having this problem... if it is infeasible for you to update the Kodi plugin, then apply this patch to Tvheadend and your recordings will show up again.